Across Mindanao, Lumad vs. Lumad as firms gobble up land
Children are once again casualties of Basilan, Sulu wars
Children?s vulnerabilities have further been aggravated by reports from the DSWD in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao that on August 19, eight kids aged 4 to 16 years old from Indanan, Sulu, were arrested and tortured along with their parents by the military?s Joint Special Operations Force.
‘Surface Jimmy Rosios!’
On this day of the desaparecidos, Anakpawis ?SOCSKSARGEN calls for the immediate surfacing of abducted labor leader Jaime ?Jimmy? Rosios. Rosios, a Board Member of Yellow Bus Lines Employees Union, and a vocal critic of the YBL management?s unfair labor practices, was abducted by armed men aboard a Tamaraw FX, just outside the Yellow Bus garage in Koronadal City, South Cotabato last August 11, 2007.
Ilagan wants Lumad agenda in Congress
"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
Child-rights groups warn vs HSA’s effect on kids
By COLLETTE CUIZON | Davao Today
The Philippines's anti-terrorism law could be misused by the military, the groups said, adding that there would be constant disruptions in the lives of children because of the HSA. "Even in places where there is no actual fighting, classrooms are oftentimes transformed into evacuation centers, disrupting school classes. Children bear the trauma when their parents are illegally arrested and detained, or, in worst cases, killed."- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 390
- 391
- 392
- 393
- 394
- 395
- 396
- …
- 490
- Go to the next page